158 Recently published Ornithological Works. 
colleL'tions recently received at the Triug Museum from their 
Collector, Mr, A. S. Meek, from Kulambaugra, north of 
New Georgia, and from Florida near Guadalcanar. 
The species represented in these two collections are 48 in 
number, of which 9 are described as new — namely. Zoster ops 
kulambangr(E, Z. floridanus, Graucalus hypoleucus, Myzomela 
eichhorniy M. kulambangrce, Myiogra feminina, Rhipidura 
albina, Cacomantis addendus, and Hypocharmusyna meeki, 
besides several subspecies. 
In a footnote the Eurystomus of New Hanover is separated 
as E. neo-hanoveranus (! scr, novo-hanoveranus). 
30. Salvadori on Birds from Spitsbergen. 
[Intorno ad alcimi Uccelli della Spitzberg-he. Per Tommaso Salvadori. 
Boll. Mus. d. Zool. e. Anat. Comp. d. R. Univ. d. Torino, xvi. no. 388.J 
This is an account of the birds obtained in Spitsbergen 
during the visit there of King Victor-Immanuel III. (then 
Prince of Naples) in the summer of 1898 (see Mem. Soc. 
Geogr. Ital. ix. p. 82). The 74 bird-skins brought home 
are referred to 14 species, all well known. But Count 
Salvadori takes this opportunity to demonstrate that the so- 
called Lagopus hemileucurus of Spitsbergen is merely a 
phase of plumage of L. hyperboreus. 
31. Saunders on Antarctic Birds, 
[The Antarctic Manual for the use of the Expedition of 1901. Edited 
by George Murray, F.R.S. Birds : by Howard Saunders, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 
F.R.G.S. Pp. 225-238. Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, 
London, 1901.] 
In the Manual composed for the use of our Antarctic 
explorers, edited by Mr. George Murray^ will be found 
an excellent essay on the birds of the South Polar Regions, 
prepared by Mr. Howard Saunders. After a general dis- 
cussion of the Penguins, Petrels, and Gulls met with to the 
south of 60° or a trifle to the northward, which form the 
bulk of the Antarctic Ornis, and allusions to the Sheath- 
bills [Chionis) and a Cormorant which is not yet properly 
identified, a systematic list of the 26 species more or less 
